Dartmouth
College
Office
of the Provost
Martin N.
Wybourne
Senior Vice Provost for
Research
Francis
and Mildred Sears Professor
of
Physics
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Dartmouth Research Community
DATE: November 23, 2015
RE: NSF Public Access Policy
Following a Presidential Memorandum,
federal funding agencies, and
some foundations, have been implementing
policies to
increase public
access to
the outcomes of
funded research. In general,
the requirements for
all federally funded research are:
·
published
results must be made
publicly available;
and
·
researchers
must develop data management
plans that address preservation
of and
access to scientific
data.
The
DOE, NIH,
and some
other agencies and foundations
already have requirements
in place.1
Starting with
proposals submitted in
January 2016, the
NSF will
be implementing its
policy.
The NSF policy requires
final
journal articles to
be available
within 12
months for
reading and
downloading.
Articles will
need to be reported in annual and
final reports
with a “persistent
identifier
that links to the
full text
and metadata
elements.” The NSF will be launching a
pilot
repository in
December 2015/January
2016 for
this purpose.
OSP will
provide further
information as details
become known. NSF’s current data
management plan
requirements will remain unchanged
for
the present.
Additional details are
available online: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/.
Current Dartmouth resources to help meet
the public
access requirements include:
·
The Dartmouth Faculty
Open Access Policy
provides
for scholarly
journal articles to
be made
open access
in the
long term
via the institution's
digital repository,
through grant
of a
license on
the part of
the faculty
to Dartmouth prior
to publishing
their work.
·
The Data
Management Plan Tool,
customized for Dartmouth,
makes it easier to create a strong
data management
plan that
meets current
federal requirements.
For consultation
on data management, see Data
Management and Resource Sharing
Plans.
·
Library
and OSP
staff are available
to assist
with public
access and
data management
requirements as
needed.
1.
For an overview of which agencies and foundations
have Public
Access requirements and their plans,
see the
Dartmouth
College Library Research Guide:
Scholarly Publishing and
Communication.